This is Thailand Video: Living With a $500 a Month Budget

You could depending on how you lived, if you ate street food everyday the average cost of that would be 100-150 baht, for a crappy little apartment you could even get one for 2000-4000 baht depending on the area and condition, lastly if you used public transportation such as the bus then it would be possible to survive in that much, im sure they are plenty of thai's surviving on that kind of income but being a foreigner i highly doubt thats the kind of life many people would be willing to lead in Thailand.

My point exactly. Just getting by is one thing, actually living and progressing financially is another.

Hey Scott, you mention in your video that you can get medical insurance for about a thousand baths a month. Do you get your cover directly from a hospital/clinic or from an insurance company? I'm paying about 4000 baths right now (Allianz WWC) and I would definitely be interested to switch to a local company if I can save 3000 baths a month.